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One hundred hexipuffs

Just over seven weeks ago I started working on the Beekeeper’s Quilt, and two days ago I hit the magic hundred mark! That’s pretty amazing to me and I keep tipping out my bag of ‘puffs and gazing at them adoringly (a bit like Gollum with his ring).

Although I do have quite enough wool to be getting on with, a couple of weeks ago I gave in to impulse and ordered a couple more balls of that merino wool – in cream this time. The pattern suggests decorating some of your hexipuffs using duplicate stitch, and includes a couple of patterns to follow. I liked this idea but wanted to create my own pattern so I sat down and worked out a pattern for heartsease (which was my dad’s favourite flower).

I had a very specific idea of the colours I wanted to use, and I didn’t have any yarn that fitted the bill, so I bought some tapestry wool to use instead. It worked out very well…

Those are definitely flowers, and I think they’re recognisable as heartsease!

I’m carrying on with my hexipuffs (working mainly with the willow tweed yarn this week I think), but I did take a wee break to knit something else last week… and I’ll post about that soon, check back in a few days to see what I made!

[…] They’re not full mini-skeins (which are usually 10g skeins), these are teeny skeins which Alison has made up using samples from her dying process. I couldn’t resist them though, and thankfully I bought two which turned out to be just enough to make one hexipuff. […]